CETconnect

May Festival 2008 Season

James Conlon, Music Director of the Cincinnati May Festival, talks with Mark Perzel about the 2008 Festival, which opens May 16 with a full-length concert presentation of Verdi's La forza del destino with soprano Angela Brown and tenor Salvatore Licitra in the starring roles. On May 17, Beethoven's profound message of universal brotherhood, the Symphony No. 9, is paired with the Festival premiere of Requiem Ebraico, a moving work composed by Eric Zeisl in memory of his father, a victim of the Holocaust. The final night of the Festival features a multimedia presentation of Hector Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette. Other highlights include choral works of Bach, Vivaldi, Fauré and Rachmaninoff, and performances by some of today's established and rising stars, such as Angela Brown, Marco Caria, Ellie Dehn, Rodrick Dixon, Catherine Keen, Isabel Leonard, Salvatore Licitra, Morris Robinson, and others.

Romeo and Juliet, 1884 (oil on canvas) by Sir Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)(c) Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire, UK/ The Bridgeman Art Library Nationality / copyright status: English / out of copyright

Recorded 5/13/2008 at CET Studios
Length: 25 minutes